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[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 months ago (2 children)

P.S. We will also accept Twitter.com as compensation.

lmao

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This needs to say x.com and all associated assets.

I can completely see musk giving them the domain keys to Twitter.com and then wiping his hands

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, putting a mastodon instance at twitter.com could be cool.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

X the site formerly know as Twitter but no longer Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I think they're a decent chance that's what they mean, anyway. "What, no, what the hell would we want with your shitty social media software? Just give us the domain name."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Honestly, if Twitter were rebuilt from the ground up, name and all, I could see people moving to it pretty quickly. Like, does anyone (real people. Not bots, not Elon, but real people) actually like X?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In a hate speech case with the Australian government, they are literally arguing they should have more time to comply with the subpoena, because it was originally lodged against Twitter, so "x" didn't get served as long ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I mean Its valuation probably would go up the minute he left so 🫠